Mainpuri district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Agra
- Headquarters
- Mainpuri
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Mainpuri
- Total
- 2,745 km (1,060 sq mi)
- Density
- 680.7/km (1,763/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 78.26%.
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- http://mainpuri.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Agra division
- Capital
- Mainpuri
- Population
- 1868529
- Area
- 2760
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Firozabad district
- Official website
- Mainpuri.nic.in
- Households
- 313690
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- topic's main category
- Category:Mainpuri district
- male population
- 993377
- female population
- 875152
- short name
- MPR
- urban population
- 288442
- rural population
- 1580087
- literate population
- 1203885
- illiterate population
- 664644
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mainpuri district ( Hindi pronunciation: [mɛːn̪.pʊɾiː]) is one of the districts in the Agra division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Mainpuri town is the district headquarters. Mainpuri is located in the southwestern part of Uttar Pradesh, within the Agra division. It is situated in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab region. It consists of six tehsils, namely Mainpuri, Bhongaon, Karhal, Kishni, Kurawali and Ghiror.
Mainpuri forms part of the ancient legendary region of Lord Krishna's land called Braj. It is bounded on the north by Etah district, on the east by the districts Farrukhabad and Kannauj, on the south by Etawah district and on the west by the districts Firozabad and Etah. It lies between north latitude 260 53′ to 270 31′ and east longitude 780 27′ to 790 26′. According to the 2011 census, Mainpuri district has a population of 1,847,194. The district has a population density of 670 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,700/sq mi). Mainpuri has a sex ratio of 876 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 78.26%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mainpuri district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.